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I have yet to proof read this. I may come back and polish it up later so be forewarned. This is a story about character assassination. I’ve been accused of it and I plead guilty to being candid. I also plead guilty to being a bit vengeful. I also freely admit that my self-defense for […]

If this post is going to get written in a timely fashion I’ll have to do it without the benefit of perusing my records. It’s about candidate Doug Frisk back before he made himself a public figure and could send me an email taunting that he could sue me for slander but not vice versa […]

As Tim Grover has explained quite correctly there is no more worthy reason to employ the Government’s power to take property away from homeowners than for the purpose of public education. If only Native Americans could appreciate the government’s nobility and high call to purpose. Its called eminent domain. And yet despite Tim’s pronouncement the […]

A couple weeks ago I had coffee with a fellow I hoped to recruit for a School Board run. He’s a professional who wrote an article critical of the Red Plan’s management and the contract provisions which gave JCI big money and little incentive to do the public’s bidding. He now works for the City […]

I explained that long time West Duluth Representative Mike Jaros, would be the seed pearl of my next tutorial. But first let me check to see how many times over the last eleven years I’ve mentioned Mike on the blog……..Wow 95 times The two posts which topped the list (prior to this entry) were “Bless […]

…all because President Obama is about to turn them into a bizzaro WPA (Works Projects Administration) for this new century. I wonder if the anonymous author of the letter I got yesterday calling President Obama a fascist reads this commentator’s paranoid rants: “Where will [Obama] get his national police?” The NaPo will be recruited from […]

Below you will see the poor excuse for advocacy which appeared in the Trib’s letter column just before my blog went down. I composed a rough draft response dealing with Dr. Doty’s work but with no blog to put it in I laid it aside in order to write a shorter riposte for the newspaper. […]

As I begin writing this post I have but thirty minutes before I leave to pick up Steven to take him to our church service. I had woken up just before 6AM thinking I had time to read most of the Trib before my grandsons woke up. However, just as I finished my shower I […]

I’ve had a good run on the blog this month. Lots more readers than usual. I’ll keep posting on the Duluth Schools but not nearly as much. There is a fair chance that all the Red Plan school board members on the ballot this fall will be defeated. Trick comment. That’s only one candidate. A […]

…on my Thug III post. Thug III is not by any stretch of the imagination my longest post. It is long and I hope well written. I had the time and focus to make sure of this. I began writing it about about 8am and kept tinkering (in literary circles this is called editing) until […]

Someone who paid closer attention to me noticed when the Trib editorialized as follows: Even Duluthians’ impressions of their public schools are improving, from 49 percent who responded favorably to, now, 56 percent. After skimming through 78 pages of the damn $10,000 survey commissioned by the City of Duluth which is posted online here the […]

The Duluth School Board race just got more interesting yesterday in the last day of filings. All the races are contested. My old 2nd District seat pits incumbent Judy Seliga-Punyko against the Red Plan critic, Loren Martell, that her board had handcuffed when he had the temerity to quote Chairman Tim Grover’s campaign rhetoric. My […]

I completely agree with the pundit Andrew Sullivan on his reaction to this poll of GOP thinking. Last night I caucused for the third biennium in a row with the local Democrats. I still feel like a man without a country when I do this. But I approve of Barack Obama who is just the […]

This is me at the State Fair this year. I’ve cut out my traveling companions who posed with me at the Minnesota Public Fair Booth to spare them the grief they will get for associating with Duluth’s most virulent child abuser. You can tell by looking what a smart alec I am. Funny thing is […]

I found this on Andrew Sullivan’s blog the Daily Dish. What’s happening in Iran is exciting. Thank goodness we didn’t have a President who decided to send American troops in to make Iran a democracy. The folks there may do it on their own instead of have it shoved down their throats like the goodness […]

I was wrong. The Russians started it. â€œYes,â€ he said. â€œAbsolutely. We’ve been trying to tell the world about this for months. If you go back and look at the archives you’ll see plenty of calls from the Georgian government saying they’re really worried. Even some Russian commentators agree that this is exactly what happened. […]

Vic sent me this synopsis of the poll in Iraq. I find it very unsurprising. The headline crows that the murdering thugs of Al Qaeda have lost support. Who said that the terrorist decapitators ever had much support inside Iraq? It sounds as though they were drawn from no more than 5% of the local […]

The official source for all the blather of the eccentric Harry Welty – Duluth School Board member, off and on, since 1995. He does his best to live up to Mark Twain's assessment: "First God created the idiot. That was for practice. Then he invented the School Board."